Is McGee facing another season at bottom of depth chart?

Jon Kitna is back at school, Stephen McGee is fresh off bagging a big buck in South Texas and the Dallas Cowboys are preparing to search for a veteran backup quarterback.

Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Wash., introduced Kitna as its football coach on Thursday. Kitna recently retired after a 15-season NFL career, including the last three with the Cowboys.

Kitna will also teach math at his alma mater, putting to use the math education degree he received at Central Washington University, according to the Associated Press.

While Kitna settled into his post-football career, Jerry Jones, Jason Garrett and the Cowboys scouts were at the Senior Bowl studying draft prospects.

While in Mobile, Ala., Jones was asked about the backup quarterback spot. His response indicated the club will seek to land a veteran to replace Kitna. If that’s the case, it could mean another season at the bottom of the depth chart for McGee, a Texas A&M product who just completed his third season with Dallas after being drafted by the club in the fourth round in 2009.

“That’s one of the things we’ll see how it evolves,” Jones said. “We like the progress of McGee. If somebody really has to start taking snaps, you’d like to see a guy with more experience. Now Houston did go pretty far with a third-team quarterback without a lot of experience. I do know it can happen. An inexperienced one can get you pretty far down the road.”

Jones was referring to rookie T.J. Yates, who started the final five regular season games and guided the Texans to the second round of the playoffs after injuries sidelined starter Matt Schaub and backup Matt Leinart.

McGee, who will turn 27 in September, has started only one of the three NFL games he’s played. One of the hardest workers on the team, he’s incorporated yoga classes into his offseason routine. But he recently took a break from working out to go hunting near Caterina in Dimmitt County, where he shot a 9-point buck.

While Jones didn’t rule out drafting a backup, he made it clear he’d rather have an experienced passer caddying for Tony Romo.

“We’ve certainly got other needs,” Jones said when asked about drafting a passer. “What you’d probably be looking at is bringing in a veteran quarterback from free agency or a trade. We’ve got to get their quicker than drafting and training a quarterback right now. I’ve got a faster timetable than that, in terms of our team and our competitiveness.”

The list of quarterbacks who become free agents March 13th is long. Some of the more intriguing names include former Texas star Vince Young, former Jacksonville starter David Garrard and Rex Grossman, who guided Chicago to the Super Bowl after the 2006 season and has spent the last two seasons with Washington.

In 2012, McGee will be in the final year of the four-year, $2.282 million contract he signed as a rookie.